中国日报：SPIC empowering isolated regions

China's State Power Investment Corp, one of the country's five largest State-owned electricity producers, has invested 242 million yuan ($36 million) in poverty relief between 2015 and 2017, including 63.76 million yuan at a national level and 67.39 million yuan at a provincial level, the company said in its 2017 corporate social responsibility report.

It has also invested 111 million yuan in constructing power grid networks in regions without power, helping more than 215,000 people, mostly located in the western regions of the country, said Jing Guangxiu, deputy manager of the strategic planning department of SPIC.

Providing electricity to populations lacking access will cause a significant jump in local people's quality of life and local economic development, Jing said.